Al Gore to Bill Maher: 'It's time to get rid of the electoral college'

For Gore, that means both abolishing the electoral college and cleansing Washington of big money.

Maher compared Gores popular vote count in the 2000 presidential election to Hillary Clintons in 2016.

Gore surpassed George W. Bush by approximately 500,000 votes, but lost the electoral college.

Clinton bested Donald Trump by nearly 3 million votes, but lost the election for the same reason.

This trend is not going in the right direction, Maher remarked.

He added, But even more importantly than that, we have to get big money out of politics.

Gore spoke to Maher about his conversation with the current POTUS at Trump Tower.

Trump announced in Junehis plans to remove the U.S. from the Paris Accords.

Watch Gores chat with Maher above.